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Albuquerque self defense shooting spike
Story here. In some years, repeat some years, the justifiable homicides have made up around 15% of total homicides. The overall average appears to be about 5%.
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"Homicides determined to be justified sparked national debate following the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Martin was unarmed and walking near his home when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, who claimed to have acted in self-defense. Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death."
Just some poor kid out walking gets shot by a gun nut.
Yeah.
I just moved to Albuquerque. Over the weekend, I was in a coffee shop next to two men loudly talking about politics. One of them said he didn't believe the poll (mentioned in the linked article) showing that 50% of New Mexicans owned a gun "because no one HE knew owned a gun." (Little did he know that he was only feet from the cocked & locked Colt Mustang in my pocket.) Somehow we need to increase the visibility of gun ownership in a non-threatening way, to challenge the attitudes of people like this. Tasteful open carry seems to be part, but not all, of the solution. What else can we do?
Died how the person making this report blew right past the fact that in one case two armed men broke in a home, and sot a resident before one of them was shot. Seems its more important that the public is trigger happy and not when the assailants are already shooting.